Building ventilation as an effective disease intervention strategy in a dense indoor contact network in an Ideal City

PLoS ONE

Volumn 11, Issue 9, 2016, Pages

  Gao, Xiaolei ^a   Wei, Jianjian ^a   Lei, Hao ^a   Xu, Pengcheng ^b   Cowling, Benjamin J ^a   Li, Yuguo ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

^b INSTITUTE OF APPLIED MATHEMATICS   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AIR AND AIR RELATED PHENOMENA; AIRBORNE INFECTION; ARCHITECTURE; ARTICLE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONSTRUCTION WORK AND ARCHITECTURAL PHENOMENA; DISEASE SURVEILLANCE; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; ENVIRONMENTAL PLANNING; FEASIBILITY STUDY; HEALTH CARE SURVEY; HONG KONG; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; POPULATION RESEARCH; PROBABILITY; ROOM VENTILATION; AIR; AIR CONDITIONING; ANALYSIS; COMMUNICABLE DISEASE; HUMAN; INDOOR AIR POLLUTION; THEORETICAL MODEL;

AIR MOVEMENTS; AIR POLLUTION, INDOOR; COMMUNICABLE DISEASES; HONG KONG; HUMANS; MODELS, THEORETICAL; VENTILATION;

EID: 84990966875     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0162481     Document Type: Article

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